Opportunities : Advanced Study

International Scholars to the Program can take advantage of arts administration facilities, resources and professional opportunities while doing advanced work in the fields of Arts Administration and Arts Education. Selected countries have made arrangements to send a qualified candidate who is already a high-level professional in the field to the Program. This person, named an International Scholar, is provided with targeted opportunities during formal study here to meet with colleagues around the country, among other benefits. Recent Saison Foundation scholars include three theater managers and producers, a television producer, and a music producer from Japan.
 
Professional Development : Open Exchange is a professional development collaboration among the Program in Arts Administration, New York's Museum of Modern Art and the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. A peer learning seminar for 6 U.S. and 6 Spanish Museum Educators, the project is a series of seminars through videoconferences, online discussion boards and in person meetings that will provide small groups of international museum professionals the opportunity to exchange ideas in the field, based upon their own experience and institutional needs. Unlike many professional conferences, this sequence of meetings will allow for sustained conversation, in which participants can return to a subject over time, reconsider and test solutions, and draw upon the resources of museum practitioners as well as academic colleagues, who will contribute their theoretical perspectives on the field. It is hoped that this model will provide partnerships and coalitions and that a larger network of relationships will be developed from it.

Image: Bill Cosby receiving his honorary doctorate from Teachers College